If Elon can’t be named without someone feeling the need to comment on his behavior, that’s mostly on him. His public persona has made a neutral reference to him into a possible implicit endorsement.

I agree the comment seemed out of place and I’m speculating about why they put it in, but that’s one reason I would do so. Someone who does a Nazi salute on TV with a bizarre smile on his face is not just another business guy.

Lee Iacocca didn’t get those comments.

>It's clear that both the sentence you quote and the following one are there for political purposes,

Yes. These people can literally not fucking help themselves.

I personally see it as a pettiness and weak character that they cannot let ideology drop from the foreground even for a second.

Again, I’m in this industry. There was a marketing push because they saw a way to easily sell new and second cars even to people it doesn’t work for. Marketing pushed so hard that there’s an equal pushback from reality.

Nothing to do with Elon or Trump.